Ok, so its happened again. No, not like the last
entry, how I structured it like you knew what I was
talking about before you did. Though that was cool.
This time its the ISP again. You know, I've liked my
Road Runner experience for the most part. Looking
forward to college networks and their potentially
fancier hook ups. (T1 maybe? Or is that the movie
with The Governator in it?)
However, do to some tragically poor wiring in my
house, the modem has always been troubled. More than
that, sometimes it won't connect. Most of the time it
seems brilliant. But then it'll go for days and not
be able to connect at all. These past few have been
those days. It sucks to be cut off from the internet
when you're as addicted as I. (and I say that not
only for comedic effect, but also as a blind faith
admission to the public of the internet. I am
addicted. Never expect me to say it so openly ever
again, but I am. As soon as I step away from it, I
have cravings for digg.com and the like. I miss it
the instant I know I can't connect to it. I even get
the shakes. well, almost... but enough of my darkest
secrets.)
Not to mention that my house was apparently built as
a hybrid domicile and bomb shelter combo. The range
of WiFi signals within that damn place are to be
disbelieved. I won't even bother to comment. I
believe you're probably smart enough not to believe
anything so fantastic and bizarre unless you see it
yourself. And I'm certainly not inviting you over.
Sorry. Even some of my closest associates have yet to
step inside my dwelling. I like to think its because
I prefer to be mysterious... but maybe there's
another reason....

What I meant to say:
Oh, that's right... none of that was my point. My
point was this: (and I love it because I feel so
authentic for say something criticizing Apple's
design) Why does the iPhone's SMS chat interface look
just like iChat? Isn't that highly deceptive? Most
texting interfaces make the whole thing out to be
like having a mailbox. Or maybe sending things by
messenger pigeon. I can agree, at least in theory,
that their scheme to organize text chats in
conversations make some sense. But as my own
experience has exemplified, its not quite right. It
makes it seem as if it's a continuous conversation
without any accounting for time. It is not IM. Its
only really an iChat look-alike.
In several interactions with my friends, I've had the
problem arise that they don't see the conversation as
I do, continuous and apparently lag-free. So I
respond to something days later like I'm just picking
up where I left off. They get confused. Then I get
confused. Then there's the fact that I, as I think
others do to, have a tendency to send shorter IM
messages. Even cute little ones that are like: "lol"
and thats it. When I think of all the text messages
I've sent in small blocks instead of complete
sentences or ideas, it makes me sad. Oh well, I'll
fault Apple on that but still love them for
everything else they do. Like the iPhone on the
whole, for instance.